DCE\u2019s demand for contract silence as veteran opens up<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cSo the opposition were very good and we played them into that. I looked at Souths at the end. They looked fresh. They were on the front foot, so they should be and we were out in our feet.\u201d <\/p>\n
Flanagan wouldn\u2019t be drawn on the two referee decisions that went against his side. <\/p>\n
\u201cThat wasn\u2019t why we won or lost, so I\u2019m not going to get into that,\u201d Flanagan said.<\/p>\n
Dragons skipper Damien Cook was asked about the forward pass from Duncan, which gifted Alex Johnston his 210th NRL try. <\/p>\n
\u201cI know it didn\u2019t decide the result, but it looked pretty blatant,\u201d the reporter said. <\/p>\n
\u201cWell you\u2019ve been an expert for a long time and I reckon you\u2019re right,\u201d Cook said. <\/p>\n
Cook was pressed on why the Dragons were so poor given they have been punching above their weight all season. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s pretty disappointing to be honest,\u201d Cook said. <\/p>\n
AJ controversially closes in on record | 00:41<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were playing some good footy and no matter the injuries, it\u2019s exciting watching these young guys come in, so we had plenty to play for the jersey to finish off the season well. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe can take that momentum and tonight we just didn\u2019t turn up. The first 20 we did. I feel like we went toe-to-toe with them there and they took 20 minutes to score their first try. <\/p>\n
\u201cBut then after that there was just a few errors and penalties and we went back to old ways where we just didn\u2019t defend that and let in a try. <\/p>\n
Brigginshaw to retire after 2026 season | 08:34<\/p>\n
\u201cBy the end of it they were playing with a lot of confidence when we were out in our feet.\u201d<\/p>\n
In some good news for the Dragons, Flanagan said he expects up to three forwards back next week, including Jack de Belin and Hame Sele. <\/p>\n
\u201cBoth of them should be back,\u201d Flanagan said. <\/p>\n
\u201cI think they are progressing pretty well through their concussion protocols, and Jaydn Su\u2019A might be an outside chance as well, so they will be welcome returns.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shane Flanagan refused to use injuries or another couple of shocking referee calls as an excuse for his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84988,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[8082,64,63,4428,8001,61788,4420,62847,11163,63826,4746,63825,761,762,158,63823,63827,63824,63828,765,4583,63829,8088,4439,85,4563,63822],"class_list":["post-84987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-anthony-seibold","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-brisbane-broncos","tag-concussion-protocols","tag-contract-silence","tag-damien-cook","tag-double-chance-hopes","tag-horror-loss","tag-inside-contender","tag-mark-st-john","tag-missed-tackles","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-questionable-referee","tag-ref-shockers","tag-referee-blunders","tag-referee-decisions","tag-run-home","tag-shane-flanagan","tag-shocking-referee","tag-sin-bin","tag-south-sydney-rabbitohs","tag-sports","tag-st-george-illawarra-dragons","tag-stunning-freefall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}